J.P. Morgan Payments Business Transformation, Strategic Execution – Associate

J.P. Morgan Payments Business Transformation is a strategic and execution-focused group. Payments sits at the intersection of finance and technology in an industry undergoing a major transformation. 
Business Transformation supports the business on a project basis, where projects are team-based and include regular interaction with J.P. Morgan Payments executives. 

Key responsibilities include: 

Lead project Strategic execution projects, ensuring working organization is in full alignment with project goals and objective, providing guidance, motivation, and support to project team organization.  Take an active role on leading conversations, driving the strategic tasking and main requirements from key stakeholders and project participants.  Collaborate with senior stakeholders and business leads to ensure the successful delivery of projects in full alignment with the bank's priorities and strategic objectives. Collect - analyze and report project data, including status updates, milestones completion and key performance indicators (KPI´s) from initiatives and projects.  Prepare project status reports, executive summary’s, scorecards, and dashboards for senior management, highlighting risks, watch items, timelines and other metrics as stablished for project.  Coordinate project meetings, workshops, and other related activities, including the preparation of agendas, meeting minutes, and action items. Communicate effectively across the organization through frequent verbal and written updates, taking an active part of the conversations, war rooms to trigger actions towards project main objectives accomplishment. Manage risks and issues for prompt resolution when and where applicable. Leverage from Counterparties, Management Team, and available resources for creative and effective resolution alternatives as mitigations and prevention strategies.  Conduct and Ensure escalations are in place when required and in consistency with resolution seeking.  Act as an agent of change – early adopter and promoter of such in the organization, driven either by market trends, client necessities or strategic decisions made, after being part of a living and always evolving organization. 

Specific capabilities required for the position include:

Interpersonal and influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to work with colleagues at all levels in the organization.  Results driven, strong analytical and end to end problem solving skills. Ability to make informed decisions quickly.  Structure and build data driven quantitative and qualitative/conceptual analyses.  Comfortable navigating in complex organization and projects working environment in hand by hand with Cross LOB stakeholders and a diverse group of interest.  Ability to convey and articulate concise communication, with experience speaking to senior executives and end to end organization.  Proactive mind set in the prevention – drive of challenging scenarios, suggest concrete actions to achieve progress and provide support towards roadblock removal.  Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and surroundings environment, with the flexibility to handle unexpected challenges and fast-moving targets.

Qualifications:

+ 7 years internal / external management consulting, working with a diverse nature of Business-related initiatives and projects with a high orientation to Strategic Business Transformation. Payments experience preferred; wholesale banking and B2B payments background is a plus. Outstanding ability to communicate effectively and confidently (oral and written) Problem solving skills; able to break down and structure problems.  Project and process management skills.  PMI – PMP certification and or Scrum Master certification is a plus. Open to an environment of active developmental feedback from peers  Excellent command of MS Excel and PowerPoint; familiar with analytical and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, R, SAS, etc.)  Monday, Jira and other agile tools for project scrum framework is a plus. Proficient in English, Portuguese is a plus.